Footbridge Falls, Oregon
Posted by: 
Volcanoguy
N 43° 42.813 W 121° 20.050
10T E 634198 N 4841406
Group of waterfalls on Paulina Creek at the trail bridge.
Waymark Code: WM4Q9
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 12/08/2005
Views: 21
This 100-foot falls (estimate) is also known as Island Falls or Lower Paulina Creek Falls and is located just below the trail bridge about 2.5 miles below Paulina Creek Falls. The falls include an upper
and lower falls.The best place to park is at the 10-Mile Sno-Park, but it is possible to drive closer. No official viewpoint but user trails lead to various views. For more information on Footbridge Falls visit the Waterfalls
of the Pacific Northwest website.
Paulina Creek is undersized for the features found along the channel, it’s average annual discharge is 18 cubic feet per second. Between 2000 and 4000 years ago a small waterfall reached Paulina Lake and dropped the lake’s level by about 8 feet. This resulted in a flood with an estimated discharge rate of about 7000 cubic feet per second (almost 400 times the annual rate). The flood lasted no more than two days. This flood formed the many large scale features found along Paulina Creek. Here at Footbridge Falls there is an abandoned
waterfall and channel just north of the current falls. At the time of the flood there was a single falls over 200 feet wide with water about 10 feet deep across the entire falls.
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